" Like some weird porno philosophy, making us a grand apostrophe".
Two coincidences conspiring to inspire what might be a new line of creative exploration. Currently reading the catalogue from the recent Hayward Gallery exhibition 'The Painting of Modern Life' which features the work of painters using photographic source material & covers the period 'the 1960s to now', including such varied artists as Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig, Vija Celmins, Richard Hamilton & Elizabeth Peyton amongst others.
Never having personally worked from photographic sources previously, it's nonetheless a fascinating subject - considering the work of another painter such as Chuck Close for example & the interesting relationship his ideas had to minimalism, the work being born of such a concept - made all the more so by the essays contained within the catalogue, accompanying the reproduced images. The conceptual underpinning of some of this work coupled with the appeal of the highly topical photographic source chanced upon in one of New Year's Day's tabloid newspapers thus proved sufficient inspiration to make the drawing reproduced here, which proved an interesting experiment particularly in the manner in which the subject all but disappeared during the process of drawing, the image being reduced to an abstract arrangement of tones each of equal 'all-over' importance that eventually resolved themselves into a reproduction of the subject-image content, itself no more important to the whole than the blank white lower third of the page-image...
graphite/30x21cm
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